Issue 153 • Friday 3 September 2021 Emailed to over 1,500 local homes
Nightingale Avenue and Luard Road ‘point closures’
The long term future of the two local experimental ‘point closures’ (also called modal filters) are to be determined over the next few weeks at a series of council meetings. A report from council officers recommends that the Nightingale Avenue closure is made permanent, but the Luard Road one is removed. More details on the recommendations and how to have your say can be found here.
Nightingale Recreation Ground pavilion update
City councillor Sam Davies has let us know that she has spoken to the officer leading on the pavilion delivery this week. The City Council is currently resolving details of the mechanical/electrical systems with the lead contractor to ensure that the new building is as ‘green’ as possible in its energy usage. Once this is resolved, the final plans for the foundations can be drawn up. The intention is that work on laying the foundations should start in November, with delivery of the modular building in January and completion by the end of the financial year (March 2022). However, this is all contingent on supply chains functioning properly and there have been problems with sourcing construction materials (wood, steel, concrete) on other projects recently. She will continue to monitor and update on progress.
Ask questions of our local councillors
The next City Council South Area Committee meeting is on Monday evening (6 September), online, and all of our local councillors should be present to take questions on any subject in the Open Forum section. Any member of the public can submit questions by email. Full details on how to watch the meeting and submit questions can be found here.
Wulfstan Way 5G mast rejected
After much campaigning by local residents and our city councillors, the local planners have refused to grant approval for this proposal. Reasons given were that the mast “would appear extremely dominant and obscure the green and open character which is integral to this section of Wulfstan Way” and that it would be “sited adjacent to the highway and extremely close to a zebra crossing for pedestrian users.”
Greener Queen Edith’s Day is coming
Planning for the ‘Greener Queen Edith’s Day’ event next Saturday (11 September) continues: it’ll be from 9.30am to 1pm at Wulfstan Way Shops. We’ll let you have the full list of who’ll be there in next Friday’s email – the emphasis will be very much on reducing/reusing/recycling and other ways of making our neighbourhood a better, brighter and greener place to be. We hope you will come and join us for what promises to be a very enjoyable event. Please email hello@queen-ediths.info if you’d be willing to lend a hand and help the team with a bit of organisation on the morning.
Latest Coronavirus news
Official government advice remains that “Coronavirus remains a serious health risk. You should stay cautious to help protect yourself and others.”
Meet outside, or open windows and doors for indoor visitors
If you think you have symptoms stay at home and take a PCR test
Wear face coverings in crowded places and on public transport
Check in to venues when you go out
Wash your hands with soap regularly, and for at least 20 seconds
Get vaccinated
Recent changes
If you’re fully vaccinated or under 18 you no longer need to self-isolate after close contact with someone who has COVID-19. If you have symptoms, you should still isolate and take a PCR test. Find out when to self-isolate and what to do on the NHS website.
16 and 17 year olds can now get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. They’ll be contacted and invited by the NHS but cannot book online.
Links and data
Cambridge’s positive COVID-19 test result rate has fallen considerably this week to 245 per 100,000 people, which takes it well below England as a whole (falling slightly to 308). The latest Queen Edith’s figure has fallen even faster, to just 109.
The national Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is expected to comment on who should receive booster jabs next week, but in the absence of a decision, it seems likely that local surgeries may go ahead with organising flu vaccinations separately. Researchers nationally say it may be better to prioritise vulnerable people first.
The Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum is hosting two short online health presentations for those who want to know more about Covid-19 or still have questions about the vaccine. More details here.
And in this week’s ‘Further Reading’, researchers at King’s College London analysing mass data from the UK ZOE COVID Study app have found that having two or more doses of a COVID-19 vaccine not only significantly reduces a person’s risk of catching COVID-19 and reduces the severity of infection if someone does get infected, but also makes them 47% less likely to get Long COVID should they contract a COVID-19 infection. More details here.
Improve your street with LHI funding
Queen Edith’s county councillor Alex Beckett is looking for the best ideas to support for the next Local Highways Improvement programme. LHI bids are a great way for residents to secure small improvements to both the roads and pavements. Alex says he is able to support up to 5 bids per year by local residents or organisations. Each can be for up to £15,000. The deadline for these is 30 September 2021. There’s more information here.
Public presentation on next Local Plan
The upcoming Greater Cambridge Local Plan will be one of the biggest issues in the region for the next year or more. As they say, the plan “will affect how we live, work and play in Greater Cambridge over the next 20 years and beyond.” We’ll be covering it at every stage where it affects Queen Edith’s, but there’s an introductory online presentation next Tuesday (7 September) which might be of interest. There are details of this and much more at the Local Plan website here. For some more general background, you may like to read the Cambridge Independent news story See the sites where nearly 49,000 new homes are proposed for Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire.
Addenbrooke’s to Worts’ Causeway resurfacing
The current closure of the Wort’s Causeway junction will be lifted from Monday (6 September) and replaced by temporary traffic lights. From Wednesday (8 September) the far south of Hills Road will be resurfaced from the Worts’ Causeway junction to the Addenbrooke’s Roundabout, and the road will be closed to general motor traffic overnight (8pm to 6am) for four weekday nights between Addenbrooke’s Roundabout and Granham’s Road. Access to properties, for emergency services, buses and active travel path users will be maintained at all times. A (long!) official diversion route will be signposted. Background to the project can be found here.
What plastics can go in your blue bin?
The City Council has produced a good resource page on which plastics we can recycle, and how we should prepare plastic for recycling. There are quite a few items that can’t go in your blue bin, for example. Read all about it here.
Pop up restaurants at Cambridge Cookery School
Limited Elle-Editions is a 12-week restaurant pop-up featuring local, independent chefs at Cambridge Cookery School every Saturday night. The September lineup has been announced, and includes South African, Cheese, Persian and Pasta evenings. More information here. Tomorrow night (4 September) sees Shanty by chef Jason Howard, who will be going back to his South African roots and creating a Braai-themed BBQ evening, with an extensive menu that caters to meat-lovers and veg-lovers too!
Climate Change: what is COP26 all about?
A series of talks and events on climate change, social justice, and the response of faith communities to climate crisis, starts next Friday (10 September). Hosted by St John’s church on Hills Road, a talk from Dr Joanna Depledge will explain the UN Climate Conference (COP26) taking place in Glasgow in November and what it means for us. Dr Depledge is an expert on international climate change and a Queen Edith’s resident. More details and sign up for a free ticket here or make a note to watch the talk live online here.
Pop-up Fruit Stands
Both fruit stands will be open this Saturday at 253 Hills Road (from 10.30am) and 36 Kinnaird Way (from 2pm). There’ll be Victoria plums, greengages and Count Althann’s gages plus Merryweather damsons. The apple season is now starting in earnest with Laxton Fortune and Worcesters for eating and Bramley’s for cooking. This is a community effort to benefit local fruit farms with profits donated to the Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub. The farm is paid at above trade prices to help them invest but still at their (Bluntisham) farm shop prices.
Noticeboard for Red Cross Lane area
Thanks to a Cambridge City Council Community Grant secured with the help of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum, the RedCross Areas Residents Association (RARA) and the local Neighbourhood Watch Scheme now have an on street noticeboard. You can find out more, and how to put notices on it here.
BAME Community Health Champions Project
The Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum is looking for volunteers to be trained as Community Health Champions, part of a new ‘Reach out for Health’ project being undertaken in partnership with Cambridge City 4 Primary Care Network. There’s general information here and full background here.
New novel from local author
John Phelps, who has lived in St Margaret’s Square for over 40 years, is due to have his third novel, A World Ruled by Mice, published in November. “In a nutshell, it is a futuristic fantasy,” he said. His earlier novels are Agent From Hell, which features a crooked estate agent, and thriller Underbelly of Cambridge. John has also written “Keeping It Short,” a collection of short stories and anecdotes. More here.
Faster internet promised
This week’s featured Queen Edith’s magazine supporter is CityFibre, which has has been undertaking a £20M ‘Fibre-to-the Home’ installation that will reach nearly every home and business in Cambridge, giving ‘lightning-fast’ internet connectivity. CityFibre is currently building north of Long Road and will be expanding to more areas of Queen Edith’s in the coming months. Anyone with any queries about the work can ring the helpline number 0800 0836160, and to find out about the service, take a look here.
Job opportunities at Cambridge Junction
Our local arts venue has an opening for a Marketing and Box Office Assistant, a role that would suit ‘someone hoping to develop a career in arts marketing who also enjoys working in a customer facing role in a busy environment.’ They are not looking for somebody with lots of experience. The post is a fixed term 10-month contract running from October 2021 to July 2022 and is for a minimum of 20 hours per week. More details on this and other jobs here.
This Week at The Light Cinema
Our multi-screen cinema’s films this week include Ainbo: Spirit Of The Amazon; Andre Rieu 2021 Concert: Together Again; Candyman; Escher: Journey Into Infinity; Free Guy; Here Today; Jungle Cruise; Mick Fleetwood & Friends; NT Live: Follies; Paw Patrol: The Movie; Rise Of The Footsoldier: Origins; Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings; Space Jam: A New Legacy; The Courier; The Croods 2; The Last Bus; and The Suicide Squad.
A packed lineup at Cambridge Junction this week includes An Evening Without Kate Bush; Blossoms (sold out); Jenny Eclair: Sixty! (FFS!); John Shuttleworth’s Back!; Jonathan Pie: Fake News (Corona Remix); New Art Club: Cupid’s Revenge (sold out); The South; and The Wendy James Band.
The Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub, which offers free fresh and packaged food supplies and household goods for anyone experiencing hardship, is open again this Saturday, from 10.30am to 12.30, at St James Church in Wulfstan Way. Food donations may once again be brought to the church on Friday afternoons from 3pm to 4pm.
Cambridge City Council’s draft Biodiversity Strategy – Documentation and Survey (until 17 October)
Cambridgeshire Active Travel Schemes including Rustat Road – Documentation and Survey (until 15 September)
Traffic disruption
One.network is the website which shows current and forthcoming road works. You can see the map here.
Prescription collection
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum’s ‘Happy To Help’ scheme has now closed, but the Patients Participation Group at the Queen Edith Medical Practice is providing prescription collections for local residents who find themselves unable to leave home – telephone 07968 538783 or email ppg@queen-ediths.info.
How to contact our local councillors
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum guide to our local councillors will ensure you contact the right one depending on your problem and the street where you live. Find it here.
Queen Edith’s city councillor Sam Davies writes a weekly email discussing what she’s been doing and what issues have come up in the area. You can add yourself to the circulation of Sam’s free email here. If our other councillors produce anything similar we will also highlight it here.
Queen Edith’s News is produced by the Queen Edith’s magazine team, part of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum, chaired by Sam Davies. Contact Sam by email at hello@queen-ediths.info
Email us at hello@queen-ediths.info if you have any news you’d like to see included, or any updates to the information above.
Issue 154 • Friday 10 September 2021 Emailed to over 1,600 local homes
Greener Queen Edith’s Day this Saturday!
• reduce • re-use • recycle
This year’s Greener Queen Edith’s event, takes place tomorrow morning (Saturday 11 September) at Wulfstan Way Shops, from 9.30am to 1pm. We really hope you’ll be able to come along and join in – it’s suitable for young and old alike. There’ll be a whole range of stalls and organisations to help us reduce, re-use and recycle, including the much-loved Take It Or Leave It stall, a clothes sale, bargain books, toy swaps and donations and more, plus live entertainment! Cambridge City Council will also be providing recycling skips at the Queen Edith’s Chapel car park.
Yesterday’s meeting of the Greater Cambridge Partnership’s ‘Joint Assembly’ decided to agree with the council officers’ recommendation to make the Nightingale Avenue ‘point closure’ permanent, but disagreed with the recommendation to remove the Luard Road closure. The result is that the next stage of the process, the GCP Board meeting next month, will now be asked to recommend to the County Council that both are retained. The board’s view will then be passed to the council for a final decision, possibly in early November. Arguments in favour of retention of the Luard Road scheme were made at the meeting by local residents, Councillor Alex Beckett, and Camcycle. You can watch the relevant section of the meeting here.
Latest Coronavirus news
Official government advice remains that “Coronavirus remains a serious health risk. You should stay cautious to help protect yourself and others.”
Meet outside, or open windows and doors for indoor visitors
If you think you have symptoms stay at home and take a PCR test
Wear face coverings in crowded places and on public transport
Check in to venues when you go out
Wash your hands with soap regularly, and for at least 20 seconds
Get vaccinated
Recent changes
Adults and children aged 12 and over with a severely weakened immune system will now be offered a third COVID-19 vaccine dose. The NHS will contact you directly to arrange an appointment.
Links and data
Cambridge’s positive COVID-19 test result rate has risen again this week to 262 per 100,000 people, although it is still below England as a whole (rising again slightly to 331). The latest Queen Edith’s figure has risen considerably and is ahead of the overall city figure of 294.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has said the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs are safe to use as boosters, but the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has yet to give advice to ministers on the extent to which third vaccination doses might be given. However, one of the leading scientists behind the Oxford vaccine for Covid-19 has said she does not support a widespread booster jab campaign in the UK while extra doses could be directed to countries with a low rate of vaccination.
Climate Change: what is COP26 all about?
St John the Evangelist church on Hills Road is hosting tonight (10 September) the first of a series of events exploring the subjects of climate change, social justice, and the response of faith communities to climate crisis. Tonight’s lecture from Dr Joanna Depledge covers the UN Climate Conference (COP 26) taking place in Glasgow in November – what COP 26 is about, what it means for us, and whether it really is our last chance to avoid dangerous global warming. It’s at 7pm, and you can attend in person, or watch online here.
Where next for Joy’s Garden?
Interested in the future of Joy’s Garden? Queen Edith’s Community Forum chair Sam will be in the garden, on Baldock Way, this Sunday morning (12 September) from 10.30am to 12.30pm. Drop by to say hello if you’d like to chat over how we can take this community project forward over the next few months.
Friends Group for Nightingale Garden
At just £10 a year, or as much as you can afford, the Friends Group for Nightingale Garden is a new way to support the community garden you enjoy, and also find out what is coming up in the garden, including the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival on Tuesday 21 September. The volunteers will have a stall, with joining forms, at the Greener Queen Edith’s Day or there’s more information on their website. For a list of events and meet-ups related to the garden, see here.
Police help for those with communication difficulties
Last week’s South Area Committee public council meeting heard from Cambridgeshire Constabulary about Pegasus, a scheme designed to help people who have difficulty communicating, for when they come into contact with emergency services. By joining the scheme, names, addresses and other information that may be difficult to provide in an emergency will be held on a secure database, so that members just have to give a unique PIN when contacting the police. You can find more details and the application form here.
Homerton’s Gardens – a September tour
As part of the current Open Cambridge event, there’s a filmed tour of Homerton College’s gardens now online to watch. From descriptions of the many stunning trees, to glimpses of the extensive grounds hidden from the main road, Stephen Tomkins adds interesting anecdotes and considerable botanical knowledge to his tour. Watch it here.
Look around some local Eco Homes
Open Eco Homes is an annual programme of free home tours and talks run by Cambridgeshire residents. This year the events are almost exclusively taking place online and will include two new builds, six retrofits (including a church) and five expert-led talks. The programme of events starts next week and will be running until 15 October, when the featured property will be a DIY 1960s EnerPHit retrofit here in Queen Edith’s. There’s lots more information here.
Support health research and make a difference
Find out more about health research at NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre and the important role played by patients and members of the public, next Wednesday (15 September) at 10am. There’s more information here.
An evening full of cheese
The Limited Elle-Editions series of indie pop up restaurants hosted at Cambridge Cookery School continues this Saturday night (11 September) with a visit from Perry and his team from Rennet and Rind cheesemongers, for “an evening full of cheese”. There’s more information here and you can make any booking enquiries by email here.
Pop-up Fruit Stands
There will be two fruit stands this Saturday, one at 253 Hills Road (from 10.30am) and the other at the Greener Queen Edith’s Day on Wulfstan Way (from around 9.30am). The stands will be selling Victoria plums, the last of the greengages and Count Althann’s gages plus Merryweather damsons. The apple and pear season starts in earnest with hopefully Lord Lambourne to add to Laxton Fortune and Worcesters for eating and Bramley’s for cooking plus buttery sweet Buerre Hardy pears. This is a community effort to benefit local fruit farms with profits donated to the Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub.
Mayor’s Day Out returns
Mayor’s Day Out is a longstanding Cambridge tradition in which the Mayor joins local senior citizens for a trip, and this year, Cambridge City Council has organised a day out to visit some of our own city’s most beautiful sights. On Tuesday 28 September, senior citizens will be offered the choice of touring the Cambridge University Botanic Garden or King’s College, followed by cream tea at the Guildhall and a chance to meet Cllr Russ McPherson, Mayor of Cambridge. Tickets cost £7, with a limited number of £5 tickets available to those on restricted incomes, and are now on sale here.
Charity 3k and 10k runs for ACT and Maggie’s
Described as ‘the prettiest and friendliest runs in Cambridgeshire’, the Grantchester Charity Runs will this year be raising funds for two Queen Edith’s organisations – ACT’s Surgical Robot campaign and our local Maggie’s Centre. Taking place on Sunday 26 September, the run offers runners medals and post-run refreshments, and everyone is welcome. Coach House Health Care, the local Trumpington clinic, will be offering post run treatments in Sports Massage, Physiotherapy and Osteopathy. More information here.
Professional local chauffeur service
This week’s featured Queen Edith’s magazine supporter is Cambridge Premier Chauffeur Agency, based locally in Cherry Hinton and offering a friendly service for airport transfers, business travel and wedding car hire. Travel in style! Stansted airport prices are from £45, Heathrow from £95. For quotes and bookings, email info@cpchauffeurs.co.uk or call 01223 472772.
This Week at The Light Cinema
Our multi-screen cinema’s films this week include Candyman; Copshop; Free Guy; Jungle Cruise; Malignant; Paw Patrol: The Movie; Respect; Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings; Space Jam: A New Legacy; Spirit Untamed; The Courier; The Croods 2; The Last Bus; The Pebble and the Boy and The Suicide Squad.
Another full lineup at Cambridge Junction this week includes Kerry Godliman: Bosh; Tom Stade: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet; Palaver Party; George Egg: Movable Feast; Beabadoobee (sold out); Mark Thomas: 50 Things About Us; Hybrid Meetings: Learn The Art Of Planning And Producing An Effective Event; Mason Hill + Hollowstar + Empyre; Tom Jones (sold out) and Henge.
The Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub, which offers free fresh and packaged food supplies and household goods for anyone experiencing hardship, is open again this Saturday, from 10.30am to 12.30, at St James Church in Wulfstan Way. Food donations may once again be brought to the church on Friday afternoons from 3pm to 4pm.
All household plastic bottles can be recycled – just rinse, empty, and squash them, and put the lid or spray trigger back on. Then put them in your blue bin. Source: Cambridge City Council’s Plastic recycling campaign page
Open Consultations
Cambridge City Council’s draft Biodiversity Strategy – Documentation and Survey (until 17 October)
Cambridgeshire Active Travel Schemes including Rustat Road – Documentation and Survey (until 15 September)
One.network is the website which shows current and forthcoming road works. You can see the map here.
Prescription collection
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum’s ‘Happy To Help’ scheme has now closed, but the Patients Participation Group at the Queen Edith Medical Practice is providing prescription collections for local residents who find themselves unable to leave home – telephone 07968 538783 or email ppg@queen-ediths.info.
How to contact our local councillors
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum guide to our local councillors will ensure you contact the right one depending on your problem and the street where you live. Find it here.
Queen Edith’s city councillor Sam Davies writes a weekly email discussing what she’s been doing and what issues have come up in the area. You can add yourself to the circulation of Sam’s free email here. If our other councillors produce anything similar we will also highlight it here.
Queen Edith’s News is produced by the Queen Edith’s magazine team, part of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum, chaired by Sam Davies. Contact Sam by email at hello@queen-ediths.info
Email us at hello@queen-ediths.info if you have any news you’d like to see included, or any updates to the information above.
Issue 155 • Friday 17 September 2021 Emailed to over 1,600 local homes
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Drop by the community garden at Nightingale Recreation Ground next Tuesday (21 September), any time between 4pm and 7pm to help your community celebrate this Chinese harvest festival on a full moon evening. There will be traditional drinks and snacks, calligraphy and activities for children. See the events page on the garden website for full details. Free and all welcome.
Waterbeach Brass Band in the park…
Music in the Park returns to Queen Edith’s this weekend! This Sunday afternoon (19 September) sees the return of the Waterbeach Brass Band for a free concert at Nightingale Recreation Ground, from 3pm. Just turn up – it’s sure to be a great event.
…and Storytelling for kids too!
Preceding the Brass Band event, also at Nightingale Rec (near the play area), we have Little Reads at 1pm. Suitable for 4–9 yrs (although slightly older kids might enjoy it too!), this Cambridge Live event is organised in conjunction with the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators. Jean Bain (author of the picture book Tedbury) and Maria Boxmoor (author of a choose-your-own-adventure yoga story) will be sharing their stories. Maria will bring the audience through some yoga poses too! There’s a gazebo for cover in case of rain, so bring the family for an hour they’ll love. Free, no booking required.
Latest Coronavirus news
Official government advice remains that “Coronavirus remains a serious health risk. You should stay cautious to help protect yourself and others.”
Let fresh air in if you meet indoors. Meeting outdoors is safer.
Wear a face covering in crowded and enclosed spaces where you come into contact with people you do not normally meet.
People aged 50 years and over, care home residents, frontline health and social care workers, and those aged 16 to 49 years with specific underlying health conditions will be offered a booster vaccine dose.
In a new video, Professor Tim Spector of the ZOE COVID Study discusses how although cases are falling, it’s interesting to observe what’s driving this. ONS data confirms fully vaccinated people make up only a tiny proportion of COVID deaths and a study estimates how high cases need to get in different areas before the system buckles. He also addresses the government’s winter plans and what he thinks about them. Watch the video here.
Waste sampling exercise
If you see anyone going through your black or green bins on the kerbside on either of the next two Mondays, it’s part of a waste composition analysis being undertaken on behalf of the local councils. Operatives from Resource Futures will be collecting (anonymised) waste from 150 households’ green and black bins in both Cambridge City and South Cambs.
Long Road Sixth Form College Open Evenings
Local Year 11 students must have one of the widest choices of sixth form colleges in the country, and will surely want to visit as many as possible this autumn. Long Road Sixth Form College has two open evenings next week on Tuesday and Wednesday (21–22 September). Talk to teachers about 48 courses including A-Levels, Diplomas and GCSE re-sits, and how to create a study programme that is just right. Full details can be found here.
Hand-made children’s toys and clothes
The Friends of the Rosie are a group of volunteers who contribute to improving the services provided at the hospital, and they have some excellent fund-raising products available at their Rosie In Stitches website shop. There are also second-hand items at their eBay store. If you have been tidying a cupboard, the group welcomes donations of craft materials, and if you have a garage or a shed that you are not making full use of, it also needs to find alternative storage space for the items or sale. Contact details can be found at the website.
St Johns Climate Lecture now online
The Glasgow Climate Conference (COP26) lecture last week by expert and local resident Dr Joanna Depledge is now online to watch. The organisers would like to apologise to anyone who followed the YouTube link to the live feed last week, as it wasn’t working, but the hour-long presentation can be viewed here now.
Spice Shack opens
A warm welcome to new Cherry Hinton Road fast food takeaway Spice Shack, which opened its doors this week. Located in the Rock pub parade of shops, where Cherry Box Pizza shop used to be, Spice Shack offers burgers, doner kebabs, wraps, fried chicken and other grilled meat. Its owners have a couple of other venues in the city, so it should hit the ground running. It’s open 7 days a week, 2pm to 11pm.
Award for Cambridge Wine Merchants
Congratulations to Cambridge Wine Merchants for coming top in “The UK’s 50 Best Indies” list compiled by drinks trade journal Harpers Wine & Spirit. The Cherry Hinton Road branch of this local chain has reopened its wine bar and works with street food vendors such as Steak & Honour on Thursday nights.
Cherry Hinton Festival tomorrow
Our friends in Cherry Hinton have their big event of the year this Saturday (18 September) with bands, beer and street food from 12noon to 10pm, and a Community Groups Fair from 1pm to 4pm. More details here.
This week’s featured Queen Edith’s magazine supporter is Coach House Health Care, the newly-refurbished multi-disciplinary clinic at Anstey Hall, off Trumpington High Street. Treatments available include Podiatry/Chiropody, Physiotherapy, Osteopathy, Sports Massage, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Non-Surgical Cosmetic Treatments, Plastic Surgery Consultations, Beauty Therapy and Life Coaching. Full details here.
This Week at The Light Cinema
Our multi-screen cinema’s films this week include Candyman; Clockwork Orange; Copshop; Free Guy; Ghost in the Shell; Gunpowder Milkshake; Jungle Cruise; Malignant; Oasis Knebworth 1996; Paw Patrol: The Movie; Respect; Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings; Space Jam: A New Legacy; Spirit Untamed; The Courier; The Croods 2; The Many Saints of Newark; The Pebble and the Boy; and The Suicide Squad.
A huge lineup at Cambridge Junction this week includes Clinton Baptiste Goes Stratospheric; Emma Frankland: Hearty; Flint Moore; Fred’s House; Jane Carter Woodrow: Whack-A-Mole; Jay Foreman’s Disgusting Songs For Revolting Children; New Routes: Three Years Younger, Dan Wilde & Seamus Mcloughlin; Rob Newman’s Philosophy Show; Sindhu Vee: Alphabet; Skindred; Tez Ilyas: The Vicked Tour; The Fiver – September; The Fratellis; The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show; and The Quireboys.
The Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub, which offers free fresh and packaged food supplies and household goods for anyone experiencing hardship, is open again this Saturday, from 10.30am to 12.30, at St James Church in Wulfstan Way. Food donations may once again be brought to the church on Friday afternoons from 3pm to 4pm.
When putting bottles into the blue bin, it’s important to empty liquids out, as these make the bottles too heavy to be sorted correctly. During the sorting process bottles are moved onto different conveyors by blasting them with jets of air. Source: Cambridge City Council’s Plastic recycling campaign page
Open Consultations
Cambridge City Council’s draft Biodiversity Strategy – Documentation and Survey (until 17 October)
One.network is the website which shows current and forthcoming road works. You can see the map here.
Prescription collection
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum’s ‘Happy To Help’ scheme has now closed, but the Patients Participation Group at the Queen Edith Medical Practice is providing prescription collections for local residents who find themselves unable to leave home – telephone 07968 538783 or email ppg@queen-ediths.info.
How to contact our local councillors
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum guide to our local councillors will ensure you contact the right one depending on your problem and the street where you live. Find it here.
Queen Edith’s city councillor Sam Davies writes a weekly email discussing what she’s been doing and what issues have come up in the area. You can add yourself to the circulation of Sam’s free email here. If our other councillors produce anything similar we will also highlight it here.
Queen Edith’s News is produced by the Queen Edith’s magazine team, part of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum, chaired by Sam Davies. Contact Sam by email at hello@queen-ediths.info
Email us at hello@queen-ediths.info if you have any news you’d like to see included, or any updates to the information above.
Issue 156 • Friday 24 September 2021 Emailed to over 1,600 local homes
Getting ready for more vaccination sessions
Our local GP practices have a huge job coming up in the next few months running flu jab and COVID-19 booster jab sessions. Once again, community volunteers will be needed to help welcome patients, marshal traffic, etc., just as hundreds of us did so effectively last spring. No experience is needed; sessions are normally only about 2 hours. If you might be interested in helping out, add your name to our list here, and we can ensure you’re emailed with details when the time comes (this is not a commitment!).
The government has set out its COVID-19 autumn and winter plan. There are also new rules for travelling to or from England, with a revised system from 4 October. A booster vaccine dose is now being offered to people most at risk from COVID-19, and the offer will also be made to anyone aged 50 years and over, care home residents, frontline health and social care workers, and those aged 16 to 49 years with specific underlying health conditions. All young people aged 12 to 15 will also soon be offered a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Links and data
Cambridge’s positive COVID-19 test result rate has fallen slightly this week to 226 per 100,000 people, still below England as a whole (which has fallen to 258). The latest Queen Edith’s figure has also fallen but at 250 it is still ahead of the overall city figure.
Latest research from the MRC Biostatistics Unit here in Cambridge says that: “Our results continue to show a stable epidemic with a national infection rate approximately constant at around 70 per 100,000 population. The ONS survey still indicates high prevalence, though initial signs of decrease are appearing in some regions. This pattern is also becoming visible in hospitalisations and deaths. Although the risk of infection and burden on the health service remain high, to date there is no evidence of a significant increase in transmission after the reopening of schools. We continue to monitor the situation closely.”
Bring & Buy at St James tomorrow
St James’ Church on Wulfstan Way has a “Bring & Buy” sale this Saturday morning (25 September) from 10am to 12noon. There’ll be books, cakes, bric-a-brac and a raffle, outside if weather permits. All are welcome!
Fruit stands still popping up
The two fruit stands will be open as usual this Saturday at 253 Hills Road (from 10.30am) and 36 Kinnaird Way (from 2pm). On offer will be Wallis Wonder plums plus a range of apples (eating and cooking) and pears. The plum season is coming to a close but it is hope to be able to offer more apples and pears at various times over the next month or two. Please look out on this newsletter or email martin.roach1@outlook.com for news of when the stands will be open. Thank you for your continuing support!
Nightingale Wellbeing Walk
Join walk leader David, next Thursday (30 September) – and monthly – for an inclusive and slower-paced Wellbeing Walk in Nightingale Park. Supported by Cambridge City Council, the walk is at a suitable pace for participants, who may take rest stops as needed. All are welcome to join, including those with buggies! It’s free, but please sign up your interest here first. Please ignore any mention of Wednesdays.
Discuss our hospitals at their annual meeting
The Annual Public Meeting of the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be held next Wednesday (29 September) at 6pm. The online presentation will share key information about the hospitals over the past year and our plans for the future, and there’ll be an opportunity to put questions to the Board of Directors in a live Q&A session. More details here.
Join a Volunteer Work Party at Wandlebury
There’s a chance to help Cambridge Past, Present & Future volunteers in their efforts to care for green spaces and wildlife, next Tuesday (28 September) from 10.30am to 1pm. Instruction, equipment and tools are all provided; wear tough clothes and footwear and bring packed lunch. No need to book, just turn up at the Wandlebury car park noticeboards. More information here.
The Light Cinema’s reduced-price Infinity membership offer has been extended to next February. For just £14.99 a month you can watch as many films as you like, get 25% off food and drink, and receive invitations to member-only screenings. Even if you only go to the cinema twice a month, this saves you money (although in this long-time member’s experience, you’ll start going a lot more often!). We love it. More information here. And we notice there’s a Lord of the Rings marathon on this weekend (see below)!
Time to get that garden work done
This week’s featured Queen Edith’s magazine supporter is The All Season Gardener, the gardening service used by many local homes. Available now for General Maintenance; Shrubs & Borders; Lawn Maintenance; Hedge Cutting & Shaping; Fruit & Veg Gardens; Patio & Drive Cleaning; Tree Maintenance; Compost Set Up; Gutter & Leaf Clearing; and Power Washing. Email Sam for a free quote at info@theallseasongardener.com
This Week at The Light Cinema
Our multi-screen cinema’s films this week include Candyman; Copshop; Dune; Free Guy; Ghost in the Shell; Gunpowder Milkshake; Jungle Cruise; Malignant; NT: Romeo & Juliet; Oasis Knebworth 1996; Oliver Sacks: His Own Life; Paw Patrol: The Movie; Respect; Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings; Space Jam: A New Legacy; Spirit Untamed; The Courier; The Croods 2; The Guilty; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; The Many Saints of Newark; The Pebble and the boy; and The Suicide Squad.
Another busy lineup at Cambridge Junction this week includes Cambridge Ska Festival 6; Cara Dillon; Fin Taylor: So My Wife…; Intotheclouds; John Grant; Luke Wright: The Remains Of Logan Dankworth; Martha Wainwright; Olga Koch: Homecoming; Sam Carter; Sh!T Theatre Drink Rum With Expats; Short Scratchings; The Staves; and The Vaccines.
The Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub, which offers free fresh and packaged food supplies and household goods for anyone experiencing hardship, is open again this Saturday, from 10.30am to 12.30, at St James Church in Wulfstan Way. Food donations may once again be brought to the church on Friday afternoons from 3pm to 4pm.
Plastic pots, tubs and trays can be recycled, including yoghurt pots, fruit trays, soup or sauce pots, and margarine or butter tubs However, please remove any film and bubble wrap – you can recycle these, too. If there’s an absorbent layer, it needs to go in your black bin. Wash the plastic and shake off any excess water. Source: Cambridge City Council’s Plastic recycling campaign page
Open Consultations
Cambridge City Council’s draft Biodiversity Strategy – Documentation and Survey (until 17 October)
One.network is the website which shows current and forthcoming road works. You can see the map here.
Prescription collection
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum’s ‘Happy To Help’ scheme has now closed, but the Patients Participation Group at the Queen Edith Medical Practice is providing prescription collections for local residents who find themselves unable to leave home – telephone 07968 538783 or email ppg@queen-ediths.info.
How to contact our local councillors
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum guide to our local councillors will ensure you contact the right one depending on your problem and the street where you live. Find it here.
Queen Edith’s city councillor Sam Davies writes a weekly email discussing what she’s been doing and what issues have come up in the area. You can add yourself to the circulation of Sam’s free email here. If our other councillors produce anything similar we will also highlight it here.
Queen Edith’s News is produced by the Queen Edith’s magazine team, part of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum, chaired by Sam Davies. Contact Sam by email at hello@queen-ediths.info
Email us at hello@queen-ediths.info if you have any news you’d like to see included, or any updates to the information above.
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